The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-04-13

why should it be thought with you an in
credible thing that God should raise the deadfs
Things all around us suggest it. Out Of what
grew all these fiowersl Out of the mold and
the earth. Resurrectedl Resurrectedl The
radiant butterfly, where did it come from.
The loathsoDe caterpillar. That alhatross
that smites the tempest with its wing, where
did 1t come FRONT A seDseless shell Near
Bergerac, France, in Celtic tomb under
block were found flower seed that had been
buried 1900 years The explorer took the
flower seed and planted il, and it came ND, 1t
bloomed in bluebell and heliotrope Two thou
sand years ago buried, yet resuIrected A
traveller says he found in a mummy pit in
Egypt garden peas that had been buried there
5000 years ago He brought them out and
on June 4, 1874, he planted them, and in
thirty days they sprang up. Buried 5000
wears vet resurrected why should it be
thought thing incredible with you that God
should raise the deadF
Where did all this silk come from-the silk
that adorns your person and your honest In
the hollow Of staff Greek missionary
brought from China to Europe the progenitors
of those worms that now supply the silk
markets of many nations. The pageantry of
hammered host and the luxurious articles Of
commercial emporium blazing out from the
out OF this insignificant earthly body, this in
significant earthly life, our bodies unfold into
something worthy Of the coming eternities?
Put silver into diluted inter and it dissolves
Is the silver gone foreverl No. Put in some
pieces of copper and the silver reappears. If
one force dissolves another force organizes.
@Why should 1t be thought thing incred
bic with you that God should raise the deadr
The insects few and the worms crawled last
autumn feebler and feebler, and then stopped
They have taken no food, they want none
They lay dormant and insensible, but soon the
south wind will blow the resurrection trum-
pet and the air and the earth will be full of
them Do you not think that God can do as
much for our bodies as be does for the wasps
| and the spiders and the snailsi This morning
| at go o'clock there was a resurrection. Out
| OF the night, the day. In a few weeks there
will be a resurrection in all our gardens.
Why not some day resurrection amid all
| the gravesf
Ever and anon there are instances of men
and women entranced-
A trance is death followed by resurrection
after a few days; total suspension of mental
power and voluntary action. Rev. William
| Tennent, great evangelist of the last gener-
ton, of whom DIR. Archibald Alexander,
man far from being sentimental, wrote in
most eulogistic terms-Rev. William Tennent
seemed TO die. His spirit departed People
came in day after day and said:
ale is dead, he is dead" But the soul that
| fed returned, and William Tennent lived to
| write out the experiences of what he had seen
| while his soul was gone. 1t may be found
| some time that what is called suspended ami
nation or comatose state is brief death, Civ
| ing the soul an excursion into the next world
| from which it comes back, furlough of a
| few hours granted from the conflict of life to
which it must return. Do not this waking
/ ND of men from trance, and this waking up
| of insects from winter lifelessness, and this
waking up of grains buried 5000 years ago.
| make it easier for you to believe that your
| body and mine after the vacation of the
| grave shall rouse and rally, though there
| be 5000 years between our last breath
/ and the sounding of the archangefic reveilles
| Psychologists tell us that while the most of
| our bodies are built with such wonderful
| economy that we can spare nothing, and the
| loss of a finger is Underwent, and the in
| Jury of a toe joint makes us lame, still that
| we have two or three useless physical ap-
| parati, and no anatomist or Psychologist has
| ever been able to tell what they are good for.
| They are no doubt the foundation of the
resurrection body, worth nothing to us in
| this state, to be indispensably valuable in the
| next state. The Jewish rabbis had only a
| hint of this suggestion when they said that in
the human frame there was a small bone
| which they said was to be the basis of the
resurrection body. Perhaps that may have
been de,usion. But this thing is certain, the
| Christian scientists of our day have found out
| that there are two or three superfiu.ties of
| body that are something gioriously suggestive
of another state.
/ called at my friends house one summer
| day. found the yard all piled up with the
| rubbish of carpenter and mason's work The
door was off The plumbers had torn up the
floor. The roof was being lifted in cupola.
| All the pictures were gone, and the paper
hangers were doing their work. All the mod,
ern improvements were being introduced
into that dwelling. There was not room in
the house fit to live in at that time, although
| month before when l visited that house ev-
erything was so beautiful l could not have
suggested an Improvement. My friend had
gone with his family to the Holy Land, ex
pecting TO come back at the end of siz
months, when the building was to be done
And oh, what was his joy when at the end Of
six months, be returned and the old house
was enlarged and improved and glorified
That is your body. 1t looks well now-all the
rooms filled with health, and we could hardly
make suggestion. But after while YOU
soul will go to the Holy Land, and while you
are gone the old house of your tabernacle viii
be entirely reconstructed from cellar to attic
| and every nerve, muscle and bone and tissue
and artery must be hauled over and the ole
structure will be FURNISHED and adorned anG
raised and cupolaed and enlarged, and al
the improvements of heaven introduced anc
you will move into it on resurrection day
'For we know that if our earthly house Of
this tabernacle were dissolved, we have q
building of God, house not made with hands
eternal in the heavens. Oh, what day wher
body and soul meet againl They are very
fond of each other. Did your body ever have
pain and your soul not pity its or your body
have joy and your soul not re-echo it'll or
changing the question, did your soul eve1
have any trouble and your body not sympa
thize with it, growing wan and weak under
the depressing influence. Or did your sou
ever have gladness but your body celebrated
it with kindled eye and cheek and elasti.
stepl Surely, God never intended two sucl
good friends to be very long separated Ant
SO when the worlds last Easter morning shall
come the soul will descend, crying, 'sWhere i
my body?" and the body win ascend, saving
where is my soulf' And the Lord of th,
resurrection will bring them together, and Il
duced by a perfect Christ into a perfec
heaven Victory! boy wonder that to-day
we swathe this house with garlands2 Do yot
wonder we celebrate it with the most conse
Grated voice of song that we can invite. ant
with the deftest fingers on organ and cor
net, and with doxologies that beat thes.
arches with the pillows of sound as the ses
snites the basalt at Giants Causeway? Onl,
the bad disapprove of the resurrection
A cruel heather warrior heard Mr.. Moffat
the missionary, preach about the resurrec
ton, and he said to the missionary: @Win my
father rise in the last dayF "Yes,r said th,
missionary. swim all the dead in battl,
riser said the cruel chieftain, sYes,r sale
the missionary. "Then," said the warrior
"let me hear no more about the resurrection
day. There can be no resurrection, Their,
shall be no resurrection. have slain thou
sands in battle. Will they riser All, there
viii be more to rise ON that day than thos,
want to see whose crimes have never been re
pented OF. But for all others who allowed
Christ to be their pardon and their life ant
their resurrection it will be day of victory
The thunders of the last day will be the salve
that greets you into harbor. The lightning,
viii be only the torches of triumphal process
ion marching down to escort you home The
burning worlds flashing through immensity
win be the rockets celebrating your corona,
ton on thrones where you wiz reign foreye,
and forever and forever Where is death
What have we to do with deatha As your
reunited body and soul swing of from thi.
planet on that last day You viii see deer
gashes all up and down the hills, deep gashes
all through the valleys. aud they win be the
emptied graves they viii be the abandoned
sepulchers, with rough ground tossed on
either side Of them, and slabs will lie uneven
on the rent hillocks. and there win be fallen
monuments and cenotaphs. and then for the
first time you win appreciate the full exhil-
aration of the text, HE viii swallow uu
| s3oath In victory